Esri always sells drinkware at the User Conference in San Diego with some mappy theme. Just for fun.
Yearly archives: 2019
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Roger Payne sent us this Map Cow “After your request for maps in the wild at Geomob here’s one. It’s an old photo from 2000 I had to scan from a print. It was part of Cow Parade https://www.cowparade.com/our-story/ in New York, and happened to be the first Cow I came across, found […]
Careful to say they brew beside the Thames (in Chiswick) rather than with Thames water though it’s a safe bet they do…with Pride.
As much for the pun “discover wine without parallel” as much as the fact it’s named after the 39th parallel.
Alex Wrottesley of Geovation sent me this beautiful 15th century world map that he came across in Florence Fra’ Mauro, a Camaldolese monk, was active in Venice toward the mid-fifteenth century. His world map depicts the image of the Earth prevailing before the discovery of America. Based on literary texts […]
Ross McDonald sent us this stunning map made of butterflies “A growing map of the SW Cape made up of butterflies. Each butterfly added supports a child living in an informal settlement
Michael Terner sent us this medallion map from Southern California … a “medallion map” that was placed on a pedestrian bridge that crosses a small tributary of the San Francisco Bay in San Mateo, CA (where my mother lives). The medallion shows the historic location of Seashell Mounds left by […]
Gary Gale sent us this pic of a map on the pavement in Richmond “Saw this this morning in Richmond. It’s a map of the Thames near Richmond to mark the 50th anniversary of the Richmond Society. It’s been there since 2007 but it’s so understated and part of the […]
Jon Morris sent us these pics of a magnificent Venetian Sofa And any decent Venitian apartment should have nautical-themed decor. One for @MapsintheWild It’s sort of mappy (editor’s discretion) though probably not navigation level.
Contributed by my dog, Wisley, who loves a ball dressed up as a globe. he enjoys gnawing off the countries to get it back to a bare globe, and playing with it in his favourite local park in Redlands.
Paul Hardy sent us this contour map on a t-shirt “I don’t know if this image qualifies – the location is certainly wild, being on the coast of Malta with the island in the background where St Paul was shipwrecked. The map was on the shirt of a fellow rambler […]